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Webster 1913 Edition


Fard

Fard

,
Noun.
[F., prob. fr. OHG. gi
farit
, gi
farwit
p. p. of
farwjan
to color, tinge, fr.
farawa
color, G.
farbe
.]
Paint used on the face.
[Obs.]
“Painted with French fard.”
J. Whitaker.

Fard

,
Verb.
T.
[F.
farder
to paint one’s face.]
To paint; – said esp. of one's face.
[Obs.]
Shenstone.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fard

F'ARD

,
Verb.
T.
To paint. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


fard

fard

See also: färd

English

Alternative forms

  • (16th century, Scottish):
  • (16th century):

Noun

fard (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
    • 1791, John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
      Painted with French fard.
Translations

Verb

fard (third-person singular simple present fards, present participle farding, simple past and past participle farded)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
    • Zachary Boyd
      The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
    • 1606, William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
      Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
    • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
      Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.
Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology at ferd. Closely cognate to Scots faird.

Alternative forms

Noun

fard (plural fards)

  1. (obsolete) Force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset.

Etymology 3

From Arabic فرض.

Noun

fard (plural fards)

  1. (Islam) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfill

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French fard (make-up, cosmetics), from farder (to apply make-up, use cosmetics), from Old Frankish *farwidōn (to dye, colour), from Proto-Germanic *farwiþōną (to colour), from Proto-Germanic *farwō (colour), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (motley, coloured). Cognate with Old High German farwjan (to colour), Middle Low German varwe (colour). See more above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faʁ/

Noun

fard m (plural fards)

  1. make-up

Derived terms


Italian

Noun

fard m (invariable)

  1. blusher, rouge

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْد (fard)

Adjective

fard

  1. odd (not even)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fardiz.

Noun

fard f

  1. traffic, journey